The issues that have divided Baghdad and the Kurdish region of Iraq will be awaiting the new government after March 7 national elections.
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The $72bn budget awards dollars to oil-producing provinces and sites of pilgrimage. A stern warning is issued to Kurdish authorities in the form of penalties for cutting off exports.
Oil Minister announces new network of boards to deal with oil and gas fields now set to be developed across the country, along with new state oil company.
Kurd, Arab and US soldiers are patrolling areas around the disputed, oil-rich city of Kirkuk, to the alarm of locals.
Officials in Diyala province, miffed that foreign companies missed the opportunity for oil investment here, are looking upbeat now at alternative investment prospects.
Section in $71 billion budget legislation threatens Iraqi Kurdistan's share of revenue if oil exports remain shut in.
Technical analysis and opinion by an Iraqi oil consultant, a founding executive of the Iraqi National Oil Company, and an author of the 2006 draft Iraqi oil law.
The net outcome of the licensing rounds is likely to be more of an asset than a liability for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Iraqi Arab-Kurd expert Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group explains how the oil is as relevant now as it has ever been.
